31 Days To Masculinity: A Guide to Help Men Live

I recently read this book and wanted to plug the excellent work done by our good friend Hunter Drew, aka /u/TheFamilyalpha whose blog is on the MRP sidebar and is a man who has never stopped “Training the Brain.” The 31 Day Masculine Challenge provides a 31-day program for self-improvement that is sure to increase your masculine quotient even if you can’t complete it. Hunter provides us an overall direction for the challenge in a well-written Introduction and then, in 31 chapters, takes us through a 31-day challenge that includes a daily task that can be a physical, mental, or emotional exercise. He also challenges us EVERY SINGLE DAY to do 100 push-ups. This means if you complete the challenge you will have done 3100 push-ups in a month. 100 pushups a day is a Hell of a start but I recommend you pace them out through the day.

Hunter begins by providing general instructions that are repeated each chapter saying that part of the challenge (besides the 100 pushups) is instructing us to give up our vices for 31 days. He makes the overall Challenge very clear. He is not talking about smoking weed unless it is a “vice” or drinking, unless it is a “vice” or a problem. IF it is a problem- whether it is drugs, video games, addiction or whatever- then you must give it up for the 31-day challenge. Apparently, he considers masturbation a default vice and instructs those accepting the challenge to refrain for an entire 31 days. Sex with another person is encouraged but jerkin the terkin is the first thing to go.

Hunter then provides a different Masculine Challenge every day for 31 days. Some of these challenges are physical and some are Mental and some are Emotional. For example, the first challenge on day 1 is to start reading a book and begin consciously being your true, genuine self by beginning to give the world genuine and true answers.

If someone asks if you are busy and you are not say “no.” You have to stop avoiding conflict at the expense of your true self.”

I won’t spoil all the surprises but in sum, the overall goal of this 31-day journey is to start getting into shape and shed your vices. Once you start working on that and at least being mindful of your challenges, then you need to start reading books and begin building your frame by being mindful about your genuineness with other people. Each of the 31 challenges reinforces the goal of building a physical, emotional or physical and masculine presence.

Bottom Line? I have read 20 or 30 books lamenting the loss of masculinity from a huge range of authors. Almost none of them offer any solution. Most of the minority that do offer solutions focus on ‘mindfulness’ and fighting the social changes by attacking feminism and strengthening the family but almost none suggest how we can INCREASE OUR PERSONAL MASCULINITY. This work is BY FAR THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN on improving your personal masculinity. . “The Rational Male” and “The Way of Men” are still must reads for the theory as are several other books, but this book is unique in presenting an actual short-term plan that is achievable and doable for almost every man which will increase your masculinity every day.

I also think that because this is not a traditional book and it is not meant to be read in a few sittings as I did (you are supposed to read 1 chapter a day for 31 days and much of the material is repeated) that I think this work would actually be better as an I-Phone App than a feature length book. When you upload the app you get the Introduction as written and a button that says “Start The Challenge.” Then the app could automatically feed you day-by-day excerpts from the text with the challenge for the day along with daily reminder. You could have checkboxes for when you complete the challenge and reminders throughout the day that turns off the notices. You could even let users do the 31-day challenge and have the option to refuse a challenge that day (or simply not respond) so that then the next day you can pick right up and do the challenge. You could have an option to complete 2 or more challenges in one day with a flashing reminder to do the 100 pushups that go with completing each challenge. If you do 2 challenges in a single day it will keep reminding you about the 100 and then 200 pushups you owe until you check it off. For an app like this I would make the no masturbation and no “vice” general rule only effective on days when you accept the challenge. That way even a sex pervert like me could complete it! An App would let you assume the challenge is 31 days but not consecutive days and you could modify the challenges accordingly and make them even more difficult and thought provoking. Just some thoughts.

TLDR:

Gentlemen, get the book 31 Days To Masculinity: A Guide to Help Men Live by Hunter Drew.

Hunter, I think this would make a great I-Phone App so you techies who know how to do this sort of thing should get in contact with him.